FLIGHT FROM FAMINE, The Coming of the Irish to Canada, by Donald MacKay (2009 1st Ed.)

Author: Donald MacKay. Published by Dundurn Group, Toronto, ON., 1990, 1st Edition. (2nd Printing 2009) Printed in Canada by Marquis Printing. Like New Condition SOFTCOVER Book, with 1st owner name sticker on front free page. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 9 x 6 inch, 367 pages including index.  ISBN: 9781554884186  GC&C Stock #4643

FLIGHT FROM FAMINE, The Coming of the Irish to Canada, by Donald MacKay, is the moving account of a Victorian-era tragedy that has echoes in our own time but seems hardly credible in the light of Ireland’s modern prosperity.

One of Canada’s founding peoples, the Irish arrived in the Newfoundland fishing stations as early as the seventeenth century. By the eighteenth century they were establishing farms and settlements from Nova Scotia to the Great Lakes. Then, in the 1840s, came the failures of Ireland’s potato crop, which people in the west of Ireland had depended on for survival. "And that," wrote a Sligo countryman, "was the beginning of the great trouble and famine that destroyed Ireland." The famine survivors who helped build Canada in the years that followed Black ’47 provide a testament to courage, resilience, and perseverance. By the time of Confederation, the Irish population of Canada was second only to the French, and four million Canadians can claim proud Irish descent.

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ISBN: 9781554884186  

GC&C Stock #4643